Published Jul 8, 2026, 4:00 PM ET · Updated 4 months ago · 1 source
Fourth person killed by agents from Trump’s Memphis anticrime taskforce
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Federal agents killed a man at a Memphis motel on Wednesday morning in a Drug Enforcement Administration operation with the Memphis Safe Task Force, the fourth officer-involved death since the anticrime initiative began in September. Donald Trump established the federal taskforce by executive order last year, amid a surge of troops and federal law enforcement agents to Democratic-run cities that he claimed were overrun with crime. All four of the deaths have occurred in the last two months. Ente